Why autistic men tend to have higher pitched voices

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In another thread, stated that I sing in the baritone range most of the time, and that on good days, I sing bass. My speaking voice follows the same pattern.

I know that people's voices change pitch based on social setting, but I feel like mine changes really profoundly. Or maybe I'm just more conscious of it because it's my own, and I'm analyzing it more.

I feel like most of the time my voice tends to be higher pitched - because most of the time I am talking to people I have varying degrees of social anxiety. But when I am feeling confident, it gets very deep, which always surprises me, because over time I start to think that the high pitched voice is just the way my voice sounds, but in fact it's not, although it is involuntary.

Across nature, pitch is related to size - smaller animals have high pitched voices, larger ones deeper. Therefore, animals in a group setting will modify their voices to dominate or submit. A weaker or more timid animal will adopt a voice replicating what a smaller animal would sound like in order to communicate that they are not a threat. I know this applies to me, I wonder if it could in part explain the tendency toward a higher pitch - although I think there could be a biological basis for some people as well.

I always note when I hear a recording of my voice that it sounds slightly high pitched and a little bit irritating.

My voice is pretty low pitched. I have a tenor voice, but my speaking pitch is at the bottom end of my vocal range.

On the rare occasions when I talk and have recorded my voice, I think it sounds average. Maybe soft but not high pitched.

I was told I have the standard announcer's bass/baritone. singing "daddy sang bass" is in my normal pitch range. it has ever been thus since adulthood or so. recently my voice seems to have lost its low tenor upper range and gained a third deeper interval in the bass.

I have a tenor which occasionally reaches into the baritone range. On the phone, people always think I'm a man.

My voice is a low baritone to bass monotone that people have compared to Ben Stein or Steven Wright's voices.

how many other guys here had their voices change at 11 or 12?